Development of the detector control system for the COMPASS detector at CERN

This document describes the implementation of system control software for the COMPASS experiment at CERN. This work concentrates on the GEM and silicon detectors, but it also includes parts that are generally useful for all kinds of detectors. The only prerequisites were the PVSS II SCADA-system and the JCOP PVSS framework distributed by ITCO at CERN. To achieve the given aims there was work to do both on a C++ framework called SLiC for hardware access and on top of the JCOP framework to customise it for the special needs of the GEM and silicon detectors.